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Title

A collection of medical prescriptions taken from diverse sources.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 27170
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27170
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

A collection of medical prescriptions taken from diverse sources.

Notes

• Tidemarks.
   
• Usage stains.
   
• Folio 154r: the names of the signs of zodiac and seven planets in Hebrew and Latin.
   
• Folio 155v-156r: a list of books in a late Italian cursive script.
   

Extent

156 folios; 156 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Sepher Rephuoth. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,170.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 28 40; written lines: 28 40; Larger initial words. Many marginal notes, marked with a simple pen-and-ink design.

Script

Ashkenazi semi-cursive scripts of the 15th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 280: his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 through Asher & Co., Berlin dealer to the British Museum 1841-1853: inscribed, folio [158v] (fse002v).
   

Related resources

• Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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